Thursday, December 22, 2005

Caribou get reprieve


Senator Stevens drills for oil in Alaska. Alaska is not happy.

Not so fast, Senator:
Oil drilling in Alaska voted down
Decision in Senate a huge setback for administration

By JUDY HOLLAND
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON -- Environmentalists scored a major victory yesterday when eight Senate Republicans departed from their party line and voted with Democrats to reject a plan that would have allowed oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
If only we could have blocked the spending cut vote (see below). But, it took Cheney hustling down to the Capitol to do that. Maybe we're getting somewhere.

Next up, Fitzmas. Impeachment time.

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